Sexual harassment in the workplace?

5 points•8 comments•submitted by moba19 to r/AskHR

Arizona, USA. My co-worker came up to me today to tell me that a woman that works as an outside contractor for our company keeps hitting on him and making remarks because he refuses to give her his phone number. So far she has approached him several times over the last few weeks. She knows he is married and he tells her that. Today she told him that he is castrated because he won't share his phone number with her because he is married. I told him that it is sexual harassment and that he should report her, but because she has three kids and knows she may lose her job over this, he doesn't want to. He is obviously uncomfortable over the issue and he said he will "think" about reporting her if she continues.

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So my question is, would I be out of line to stop by HR and inform them of the issue? I am afraid of hurting our working relationship if I do say something to HR. Should I just stay out of this and let him handle it? Can I do this anonymously?